Sherbrooke daily record, 24 septembre 1941, mercredi 24 septembre 1941

[" for brook?ISrrorb WEATHER Fair and cool.TEMPERATURES \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Yesterday: Maximum, 66; minimum, 53.Same day last yean M«x., 67; min., 33.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941.Forty-Fifth Year.LENINGRAD DEFENDERS LAUNCH COUNTER-ATTACK Reds Register Fresh Gains On Northern Front Important Village on Approaches to Leningrad Recaptured by Red Troops\u2014Central Front Offensive, Launched to Allow Southern Leaders to Regroup Forces, Reported Meeting with Considerable Success.«?¦ FRENCH CLAIM BRITISH SUNK BIG FREIGHTER Airplane Plant Workers Provide New Problem For Labor Officials Moscow, Sept.24.\u2014W\u2014The Red army reported the defenders of Leningrad advancing to new positions over battlefields strewn with the corpses of German soldiers in sharply intensified counter-attacks today.The Soviet Information Bureau, at the same time, told of fresh successes in the counter-drive on the Central front, one aim of which is to relieve pressure on Marshal Semeon Budenny\u2019s forces now regrouping in the Ukraine for defence of the industrial Donets River basin.Red Star, newspaper of the Russian army, said a day-long assault on positions held by the 136th German infantry division ended with recapture of point \u201cD?\u2019 on the approaches to Leningrad.German counter-attacks, all supported by tanks, were repulsed and large-scale Nazi attacks Southeast of Leningrad also failed, the besiegers being driven back to their original positions after brief but fierce encounters.Red Star said.Naval fliers of Russia\u2019s Baltic fleet, supporting land foi-ces in the Battle of Leningrad, were said to have destroyed two German anti-aircraft batteries, eleven anti-aircraft machine guns, fourteen armored cars and eight guns.On the Southern flank, Red Star reported heavy fighting for point \u201cN\u201d, near Kerson, on the Dnieper near the Black Sea between Odessa and the gateway to the Crimea.The Russians are defending strongly fortified positions against German assaults, it said.On one unspecified front, the Germans were acknowledged to have penetrated the Russian front.These reports, however, declared reinforcements were rushed up and the invaders were thrown hack after a daylong battle, having lost 1,500 in killed.A Berlin declaration that four Russian armies had been encircled East of captured Kiev was officially denied.S.A.Lozovsky, Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs, made the denial at a press conference, but frankly^ expressed concern at the possibilities of the German drive towards the i Donets Basin and the key cities of Kharkov and Rostov.Success of the Nazi thrust ,he said, would reduce Russian industrial capacity and provide a jumping-off point for an offensive against the Caucasian petroleum fields\u2014-which supply nine-tenths of the U.S.S.R.\u2019s ordinary oil needs\u2014and the British-Rus-sian supply route through Iran.With blackout restrictions newly # \u2022 FINNS CLAIM THAT LARGE ELECTRIC PLANT AT LENINGRAD TAKEN Helsinki, Sept.24.\u2014{/P) \u2014 The Finnish Government claimed today that Finnish troops had occupied the Svir river power station No.2 which the Russians had used to provide current for Leningrad.Finns crossed the canalized stream linking Lakes Onega atid Ladoga to overcome heavy Soviet resistance, it was claimed, and two officers made a dash to defuse explosives which the defenders had set to blow up the power dam.Vichy Spokesman Claims that ship Carrying Phosphates from Tunis Was Dive-Bombed by British Planes.Tunis, Sept.24.\u2014(Æj\u2014A Vichy Government spokesman today asserted the French freighter Monselet was bombed and sunk by British planes last Saturday shortly after putting out from the Tunisian port of Sfax with a cargo of phosphates for France.It said the freighter caught fire and sank after being hit by three bombs near the Kerkennah Islands.The crew was said to be safe.Sfax, 150 miles South of Tunis, was the scene of several Royal Air Force raids against Italian ships a few months ago.(Monday\u2019s R.A.F.communique in Cairo reported an attack on September 20 which left a heavily laden merchant ship burning and sinking off the Kerkennah Islands.) New York, Sept.24.\u2014(/P)\u2014Discovery of a charred skeleton yesterday in the hold of the freighter Panuco raised to thirty-five the death toll cf the fire that swept the vessel and its $600,000 cargo last August 18.\"Washington, Sept.24.\u2014(Æ5)\u2014 An [ overwhelming strike vote in a California military aircraft factory posed a new and pressing problem .today for United States federal conciliators already occupied with a sailors\u2019 walkout which has tied up twenty-six ships on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.The new strike threat was directed against the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at San Diego, Calif., holding $750,000,000 worth of orders for bombers, placed by the United States, Britain and her allies.The International Association of Machinists (American Federation of Labor) announced that 98.8 per cent of the membership at the plant had authorized a strike to enforce demands for increased wages The strike of A.F.L.seamen for higher war bonuses began ten days ago.The twenty-sixth ship was tied up yesterday when sailors walked off the Alcoa Pilgrim when it docked at Mobile, Ala.At his press conference yesterday, President Roosevelt asserted that HUGE YIELD IN ALUMINUM CAMPAIGN Washington, Sept.24.\u2014i(A>)\u2014The United States-wide aluminum collection campaign yielded an estimated 11,835,139 pounds, of scrap, defence officials announced today\u2014 a total equivalent to the amount of aluminum needed in 1,900 fighters planes or 350 four-motored bombers.Allied Governments Praise Roosevelt-Churchill Stand Council of Governments Meeting in London Approved Atlantic Charter Without Dissent, Pledging Adherence to \u201cthe Common Principles of Policy\u201d and Co-operation to \u201cthe Best of Our Ability.\u201d -# - London, Sept.24.\u2014\u2014The Coun- the tied-up vessels have to move; they must not remain idle.He announced that the dispute had been referred to the Mediation Board.The Board telegraphed the ship owners and the striking seamen that the vessels are \u201cvitally and immediately needed for the transportation of defence materials,\u201d and asked that the strikers return to work oending the Board\u2019s consideration of the dispute.A hearing in the case was set for Monday in Washington.The A.F.L.Seafarers International, meanwhile, balloted on the question of a general walkout which would affect 20,000 men and tie up the vessels of twenty-five lines.The strikers are seeking a $60-a-montli bonus for trips to the West Indies, and increases in the present bonuses (which vary widely) paid for voyages into war zones.A Congress of Industrial Organizations strike yesterday halted operations at the Springfield, O., plant of the International Harvester Company, where 3,500 employees have been building trucks, some of them for the army.ITALIAN NAVAL UNIT SUNK BY BRITISH SHIP Arming Of Freighters Next Probable Move Of Submarine, Braving Fire ofj Roosevelt Navy Policy Enemy Shore Defences\t________________ Sank Large-Sized Italian !President Openly Hints that Providing of Merchant Vessels Minelayer.London, Sept.24.\u2014®\u2014An Italian minelayer of the Crotone class has been torpedoed by a British submarine in the Central Mediterranean and \u201cprobably destroyed,\u201d the Admiralty announced today.I The communique also disclosed 'the torpedoing of an Axis supply ship of about 5,(>0'0 tons but did not Isay whether it had been sunk.| A British submarine, it said, brav-jed the fire \u201cof enemy shore de-j fences\u201d to shell a large schooner I which \u201cwas certainly hit and dam-jaged and probably sunk.\u201d The submarine was not damaged, j The Crotone is a ship of 359 tons, acquired from Germany.HEAVY DAMAGE IN TEXAS CITY Three Known Casualties as Storm Takes Surprise Turn in Houston Area\u2014Damage Reaches Millions.Continued on Page 2, Col- 5.Houston, Tex., Sept.24.\u2014(/P)\u2014A tropical hurricane, sweeping inland from the Gulf of Mexico, veered unexpectedly today and slashed squarely into Houston, Texas\u2019 largest city.The storm, which blew in from the Gulf with lOO-mile-an-hour windis yesterday afternoon, left millions of dollars damage in its wake.Officials estimated the rice crop alone suffered $1,700,000 damage.Damage estimates in Houston ranged up to $1,000,000 today even before the storm be^an to abate.All com- Continued on Page 2, Col.4.Increased Industrial Production Essential To Democratic Victory New York, Sept.24.\u2014 (O\u2019) \u2014 The salvation of Europe\u2019s persecuted people lies in the factory production of North America which must create a machine more powerful than the one which carried.Hitler victoriously across Europe, Premier Mitchell Hepburn, of Ontario, said last night.Speaking over a nation-wide hookup a few hours after he arrived here by plane from Toronto, Mr.Heb-b\u2019urn painted \u201ca true picture, but a dark picture\u201d of the international situation, coupling his remarks with a condemnation of strikes that interfere with production.His broadcast was heard in Canada over a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network.Earlier, in an interview,^the Premier criticized the Canadian Government for what he described as the \u201clack of progress in the war effort.\u201d He said Prime Minister Mackenzie King\u2019s \u201capathetic\u201d Government had failed to handle \u201cbottlenecks and strikes.\u201d The Premier will remain here until tomorrow to visit Canadian friends and will not confer with any American officials.Today he will be inducted into membership in the Circus Saints and Sinners and to- morrow will be guest-of-honor at a \u201cVictory luncheon\u201d in the Hotel New Yorker, to be given by Frank L.Andrews, President of the hotel.Detectives were on hand at La Guardia Field as Mr.Hepburn\u2019s plane arrived.He was welcomed by acting Mayor Newbold Morris and former Governor Harold G.Hoffman, of New Jersey.A police escort accompanied him to a private luncheon in his honor at the Chase National Bank.From there he went to the quarters of the Canadian Club of New York in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.It was there he told the New York reporters that Canada, while making good progress with the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, is \u201cnot doing so well with other things.\u201d He said Canada has \u201clots of strikes and lots of bottlenecks,\u201d and blamed the strikes on \"labor racketeers\u201d whom he described as \u201cmen who live off the dues paid in by workers.\u201d \"In Canada we lack co-ordinated effort\u2014we\u2019re getting nowhere,\u201d Mr.Hepburn said of the Dominion\u2019s war effort.\u201cGermany and Japan have as their objectives world domination.I\u2019d harness the resources and Continued on Page 2, Col.2.cil of Allied Governments today approved the Roosevelt-Churchill eight-point Atlantic Charter without dissent, pledging adherence to the \u201ccommon principles of policy\u201d and co-operation \u201cto the best of our ability.\u201d A resolution to this effect was adopted by a voice vote after the Soviet Ambassador, Ivan Maisky, had declared that Russia was in agreement with the fundamental principles of the declaration and asserted that the Soviet Union would defend the right of every nation to independence, territorial integrity and the social order and form of government of its own choice.Before the vote was taken the Netherlands Foreign Minister, Dr.E.N.Van Kleffens, objected to Point IV of the Roosevelt-Churchill declaration, which provides equal access for all nations to world trade and raw materials, but \u201cwith due respect for their existing obligations.\u201d Van Kleffens said the avowed aims of Point IV \u201ccannot be attained if considerable exceptions\u201d to it were to be made.He pleaded for abolition of trade barriers and \u201cdiscriminatory treatment in international commerce.\u201d \u201cWe shall have to do away,\u201d he said, \u201cto some considerable extent with measures designed to protect existing economic units.This will mean sacrifices for all.\u201d Van Kleffens reminded the Council that similar ideas of world-wide free trade had \u201cfound solemn expression\u201d at the conclusion of the First World War, but, he said, \u201cWe all know what became of it when the snowball of protection was set rolling until it became so large it was a serious obstacle in the path of international trade.\u201d Maisky was one of the first speakers.\u201cConsistent application of these principles,\u2019\u2019 Maisky told the Council of Inter-Allied Governments, \u201cwill secure the most energetic support on the part of the Government and peoples of the Soviet Union.\u201d The most pressing task before the Allied governments, he said, \u201cis correct allocation of all economic resources and war supplies with a view to early liberation of all European peoples now oppressed by Plitlerite slavery.\u201d Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, presided at the Council meeting, the first of its kind since Soviet Russia entered the war, and made a special point of presenting Maisky early in the proceedings.Mr.Eden welcomed Maisky as a representative of a people who are \u201cdefending themselves with a courage, tenacity and skill which have won the admiration of the world.\u201d The Council planned to consider resolutions regarding the Roosevelt-Churchill declaration and the supply of essential requirements to Europe after the war.DEATH TOLL IN MEXICAN CLASH THOUGHT HEAVY Mexico City, Sept, 24.\u2014 (fP) \u2014 From four to fourteen persons were declared today to have been killed in a clash of Mexican troops and aggrieved munitions workers who sought a mass interview with President Manuel Avila Camacho.Avila Camacho, former army general, expressed regret at the incident which caused gunfire yesterday on the Avenue del Castillo.He ordered an investigation.An authorized source said four workers were killed and six.sen wounded.Other reports placed the toll as high as fourteen dead and dozens wounded Among the dead was listed Guillermo Rojas, Secretary-General of the Workers\u2019 Syndicate.Munitions workers had been demanding removal of Gen.Luis Bob-adilla Camberos, director of the war plants, and paraded toward the President\u2019s home to emphasize charges that: 1\u2014\tThe director had conspired with labor leaders who had been ousted from their own union, to give the impression that the workers were Communists.2\u2014\tHe had injured the quality of munitions production by farming out contracts to incompetents.3\u2014\tThe ousted union leaders had attacked the President\u2019s international policies (which include co-operation in hemispheric defence and betterment of relations with the United States) in the union publication.The official account said two hundred workers made the march.Others said more than one thousand participated.Spectators said soldiers guarding the President\u2019s house blocked the path, that the workers attempted to disarm them and the troops then fired.GERMANS AGAIN WOULD JUSTIFY SHIP SINKING ITALIANS MAKE LOUD CLAIMS Rome, Sept.24.\u2014 (A1) \u2014The Italian high command today claimed Italian planes sank a 2,5CI(l-ton armed steamship and seriously dam-iagod a 1,000-ton vessel in an attack jon a British convoy in the Mediterranean.It claimed also that a 12,000-ton oil tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean by an Italian submarine.Oontinucd on Page 2, Col, 3 Berlin.Sept.24,\u2014 (IP) \u2014German spokesmen asserted today that President Roosevelt\u2019s statements concerning the freighter Pink Star merely confirm that Germany acted accord-ling.to international law in torpedo-' ing the vessel.The ship was armed, was convoyed by enemy craft, and carried the flag of Panama, not of the United States, they stated.\u201cWhoever accepts an enemy convoy becomes a constituent part of an ' enemy formation,\u201d they asserted.\u201cRoosevelt, by his description of the incident, himself revealed the perfectly correct procedure of the j German submarine.(The Pink Star, an American-own-j cd former Danish vessel, was sunk ] Friday night in the Atlantic .some 275 miles Northeast of Cape Farewell.Greenland, while travelling in a Canadian convoy, President Roosevelt said yesterday at a press conference.She was armed, he said.) German spokesmen asserted that Mr.Roosevelt, in claiming it was immaterial whether such a ship as the Pink Star were armed or unarmed or what flag it flew, \u201cis trying to establish Wild West justice, not in-t.'national law.\u201d They said: \u201cThe American President speaks of pirates.For us, pirates are those who impair or prevent normal trade belween countries not at war with each other, England is the pirate.\u201d with Adequate Defensive Armament Will Be Sought-Move Would Require Revision of Much-Debated Neutrality Law\u2014Republican Leader Supports Plan.-# - Washington, Sppt.24.\u2014(#*)\u2014 TIip arming of American merchantmen today became the next probable move in the s'hoot-on-sight campaign to make the \"defensive waters\u201d of the United Stales an unhealthy hunting ground for Axis raiders.It would necessitate modification of the much-debated Neutrality Act, and it might eventually involve the stupendous technical job of furnishing guns and gun crews for more than 1,(100 ships\u2014two problems receiving study at the White House.ARMY MEDICAL CORPS DRAFTEE INVOLVED IN NAZI SPY RING New York, Sept.24.\u2014(/P)\u2014 The name of Rene Froehlich, thirty, a United Staten Army Medical Corps private, was added yesterday to the growing list of Na7,i spy suspects.He was held under bail of $25,000 in Federal Court for trial on federal espionage charges.The Government charged that the soldier, a naturalized United Sates citizen, a draftee and a native of Dresden, Germany, was used by a spy ring to obtain military information.Whiting*, Ind., Sept.21.(/P) - Oik» man was reported killed and several others injured in an explosion and fire today at the Standard Oil Company plant.Cojnpany officials expressed concern lest the plant, storage place for highly-volatilc ! fuels, should explode.Argentine Cabinet Acts To Avert Nazi-Backed Revolt Regular Army Troops Complete Occupation of Air Ports Following Reports that Numerous Young Aviation Officers Were Planning Uprising\u2014Special Congressional Committee Continues Probe of Nazis.- #- Buenos Aires, Sept.24.-\u2014(IP) SEEK ASSISTANCE FOR SAILORS Calgary, Sept, 24.\u2014(0>)-Dr.H.0.Blackhurst of the Navy League and delegate to the Trades and Uabor-Congress of Canada from the American Federation of Labor appealed yesterday for assistance of workers in providing comforts for the merchant navy men.Regular army troops completed the !occupation of all military'airports in Argentina today after arresting a number of young aviation officers in a series of swift moves apparently inspired by fear of an uprising against the Government.| Official quarters declined com-jment on the sudden developments, which caused a flurry of excitement last night in the Chamber of Deputies, but some sources linked the Government\u2019s action with a current Congressional investigation of Nazi activities.Raul Damonte Taborda, chairman of the committee conducting the inquiry said he understood the officers arrested \u201cincluded some who have been plotting with a view to putting an end to the investigation.Taborda made this assertion shortly after news reached the capital that troops had occupied m\"' DUKE DISPLAYS FORMER ENERGY DURING VISIT Active Twelve Hours Spent by Duke of Windsor on Arrival at Miami En Route to Western Ranch.tary airdromes at the inland cities ; world as Britain\u2019s good will envoy, of Cordoba and Parana\u2014both ofj The Governor of the Bahamas flew which have large German popu- j here from Nassau with the Duchess Miami, Fla., Sept.24.\u2014 (TP)\u2014The Duke of Windsor proved at the outset of his six-week vacation trip to the United States and Canada that he is just as energetic as the Prince of Wales who used to dash around the : of Capo Farewell, the Southernmost tip of Greenland, while travelling in President Roosevelt, however, told his press conference yesterday that a decision on the Neutrality Act probably would be forthcoming next week, and he hinted strongly at its nature, in one respect, when he said the United States probably is headed toward the arming of its merchant marine.Mr.Roosevelt bracketed that hint with the statement that everything would he done to protect American shipping\u2014an assertion quickly endorsed by Senator Warren Austin, of Vermont, Assistant Republican leader, who has consistently supported the administration\u2019s foreign policy.Emphasizing he was speaking ns an individual, Austin told reporters there should he unified national support of any move to bring about outright repeal of the Neutrality Act.It was silly to assume, he added, that the United States is neutral.Austin\u2019s attitude was not shared by Senator Charles Tobey (Rep., New Hampshire.) Tobey charged that the \u201cNeutrality Act is being evaded and avoided at eveiy turn,\u201d and he said the arming of merchant ships would be only \u201canother of a sequence of events that are bringing us into active warfare.\u201d The question of arming ships and.modifying the Neutrality Act arose at Mr.Roosevelt\u2019s press conference yesterday during a discussion of the sinking of the Pink Star\u2014an American-owned ship operating under the flag of Panama\u2014which went down in the North Atlantic Friday night while en route to Iceland.The President contributed some additional details on the ship\u2019s loss.He said she had been the victim of a submarine some 275 miles Northeast WAR BULLETINS Continued on Page 2, Col, 6.Vichy \u2014 A military court at Perigueux, Southwestern France, yesterday sentenced twenty-three persons described as Communists to prison terms ranging from one year to life.One, whose name was not given, was listed as a former editor of the Paris Communist newspaper L\u2019Humanite.Y Ÿ ¥ Tokyo \u2014 Russia has replied to Japan\u2019s protest against mines drifting into the Sea of Japan, apparently from Vladivostok fields, Koh Ishii, Government spokesman, said today, but the nature of the answer was not disclosed.In another field, Ishii announced that the Japanese Government was negotiating for another loan from Thai bankers.The first loan, announced August 1, was for 10,000,000 bahts (nominally $3,« 600,000) to finance Japanese ourchases in Thailand.* * * Chungking \u2014 The Chinese Central Daily News said today the Chinese air force hurled a \u201chuge formation\u201d of planes yesterday into the big battle of North Hunan Province which entered its second week today.The Chinese fliers were said to have attacked Japanese planes and bombed a Japanese gunboat in Tung Ting lake, returning to base without losses.lations\u2014-and were taking over air- J yesterday and soon had leg-weary aides puffing to keep up with him.Within twelve hours of his arrival, the Duke had: Paid a visit to Arthur Davis of Pittsburgh aboard the latter\u2019s yacht; Lunched at his hotel with friends; fields elsewhere.The news came as a climax to rumors which spread through the Chamber yesterday that a subversive movement was afoot in the three provinces of Interios, Cordoba and Tucuman which would call for military action.As the Chamber ended its session late last night, while the nation\u2019s highest military authorities conferred in the capital, Eduardo Tessaire, a Radical Deputy, caused a furore by alleging that acting President Ramon Castillo himself had \u201cjoined in totalitarian plotting.\u201d Castillo earlier had denied rumors of unrest in the interior and had declared that the country as a whole was calm.In addition to the airports at Parana and Cordoba \u2014 where only last month suspects in an alleged Nazi plot were rounded up\u2014the army was said to have taken over El Palomar airfield just outside Buenos Aires, FJ Plumerillo in Mendoza, Coronel Pringles in Villa Mercedes and the military airplane factory at Cordoba.Among those reported arrested were Lt.-Col.Edmundo Sustaita, air corps officer at Cordoba; a Lieutenant Krauss at Parana; and a Capt.Menendez, also at Parana.No reason for the arrests was given in either official or press versions of developments.Col.Francisco Suarez, Chief Secretary of the War Office, was uncommunicative when questioned after leaving the conference of military leaders here last night.Present at the conference with Suarez were Rear Admiral Mario Fincati, Navy Minister and acting Minister of War in the absence of Gen.Juan Tonazzi, now in Chile, and Gen.Angel Zuloaga, chief of the air force.a Canadian convoy.The State Department announced later that twenty-three, survivors, whose names were not issued, had reached Iceland in good condition.The total crew was made up of thirty-four men, including seven Canadians.The master of the ship also was a Canadian\u2014Captain John Continued on page 2 col.4.Continued on Page 2, Col.3.British Aviators Make Splendid Show In Russian Front Activity Continued on Page 2, Col.2.J London, Sept.24.\u2014f(P)\u2014The Royal Air Force has gone into action ]at the side of the Russians on the : Eastern Front and in its first en-Igagements one squadron has destroyed seven German Messer-jschmitt planes with the loss of only lone fighter, the Air Ministry an-Inounced today.A communique told of patrols fiown in bad weather over the long |Eastern front and \"successful encounters with enemy fighters.\u201d The communique said: \u201cReports now have been received of the first operations carried out by R.A.F.units now in the U.S.-|S.R.\u201cA number of patro's have been j flown in bad weather and there have 'been successful encounters with 'enemy fighters.In the first engage-jment one of our squadrons destroyed three 1.09's with a loss of ona of our fighters, the pilot of which was killed.\u201cThe same squadron later destroyed four ME 169's without loss to themselves.The wing is commanded by Wing Cmdr, H.N.G.Ramsbottom-Isherwood, A.F.C., and includes officers anti men from Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.\u201d BAD WEATHER HAMPERS WEST-ERN OFFENSIVE London, Sept.24,\u2014KP)\u2014Unfavorable flying weather over the continent last night prevented the Royal Air p\u2019orce from offensive raids on Germany for the third successive night.German night, raiders operating against Britain were few in number, confining their activity to coastal districts of Southwest England and South Wales.A communique said bombs dropped at several points caused some damage and a small number of casualties.MERGE JAPANESE TOBACCO COMPANIES Tokyo, Sept.24.\u2014(Æ1)\u2014The China Affairs Board decided today to carry out a merger of six Japanese tobacco companies in China to meet the competition of an alleged Brit-ish-American tobacco trust in Centra] China and counteract the effects of freezing of Japanese funds abroad, Domei news agency said, ^23B 2, SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941 F.E.MEREDITH PASSES ON IN HIS 80TH YEAR FINAL TRIBUTE WAS ACCORDED MRS.W.R.PRICE Former Chancellor of Bishop\u2019s University Was Prominent in Finance as Well as Legal Profession.Montreal, Sept.24.\u2014Funeral services for Frederick Edmund Meredith, K.C., LL.D., former Chancellor of the University of Bishop\u2019s College, who died yesterday at his home here in his $0th year, will be held from Christ Church Cathedral tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o\u2019clock, with interment in Mount Royal Cemetery.Mr.Meredith had suffered a long illness.Member of the Quebec branch of a family of Irish origin which distinguished itself both in this Province and Ontario, Mr, Meredith was Increased Industrial (Continued from page 1.manpower of this continent without delay.\u201d He predicted defeat of Russia and jjapan\u2019s entry into the war on Ger-! many\u2019s side against Russia \u201cwithin a few months.\u201d He said North Am-i erica must muster its resources and Iget aid to Britain before it is too {late or Britain would fall.\u201cThat\u2019s ïenlLcf'rt\"\u2019hedacbieedaI1 mieht as f:unerai Services Yesterday i First General Meeting of | In his broadcast address, the Premier warned of the danger of a two- j 'ocean attack by Germany and j ].Japan against tha United States and I {Canada if the Nazis conquer Russia] and Britain and declared: PARTY ON WAY TO TWO MILES FALLS SESSION for Prominent Member of Presbyterian Church Ladies\u2019 Organizations.Chamber of Commerce Since Summer Recess to Be Held this Evening.More than seventy members of Final tribute was paid Mrs.W, ! i \u201cSo from the Pacific and Atlantic !r.Price, prominent member of ; the Sherbrooke Chamber of Com-this continent, the last stand of de-'many ladies\u2019 organizations of theitnerce, accofnpanied by Mayor Jos Presbyterian Church, at funeral ser-ieph Labrecque and members of the vices held yesterday from the late City Council, left by bus this afterresidence on High Street to St.An- noon for a tour of inspection of the drew\u2019* Church.Attending the ser-'city-operated power plants at yet no one can say that such a situa- vice were large numbers of friends Weedon, Westbury and the propostion is not a probability.\u201d\t{and representatives of the groups to ed site, for a power development at Which the deceased had belonged.jTwo Miles Falls.mocracy, may be facing, by a combination of circumstances, the rest .of the world alone.I have painted a true picture, but a dark picture, ^i| l'r'aiüiiB'üiBüW'iB\u2019iaüntiHiiiiBi'üiii'iiiBh.THE NE VV ___ Premier ® THEATRE STARTING TODAY By Popular Request THE GREATEST MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA EVER BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN! 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Argentine Cabinet I Continued from Page 1.i The new military developments ! came as Castillo and his Cabinet {considered a Chamber of Deputies {resolution asking for the expulsion I of alleged ringleaders of Nazi activ-lity, among whom Taborda\u2019s committee has included, the German ambas-I sudor, Edmund von Thermann.i Informed quarters said Castillo (also would ask his ministers to con-Isider a Berlin press attack on 'Argentina which was provoked by ithe committee\u2019s charges.TECHNICOLOR \u2014 Hear \u2014 South American Way,\u201d \u201cMammae Eu Quero,\u201d \u201cBainbu,\" Two Dreams Met,\u2019 Nenlta\u2019\u2019 and Others DON AMECH BETTY G R A B L E CARMEN MIRANDA .ml CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD J.CARROL NAISH \u2022 HENRY STEPHENSON * KATHARINE ALDRIDGE .LEONID KINSKEY CHRIS-PIN MARTIN A 20th Century-Fox Picture I Mrs.Price died on Sunday at j The members of the Chamber he age of seventy-one years at theiwill hold a general meeting\u2014the home of her sister, Mrs.J.F.S.{first since the summer recess\u2014at McCaw, and Mr.McCaw, with whom ' Two Miles Falls this evening fol-she had resided since the death1 lowing a dinner at which city offic-twenty-one years ago of Rev.Mr.jials will outline plans for the de-Price.\tivelopmeiit of the power project.The sendees were conducted by : The party will be accompanied by Rev.W.R.Northridge, of St.An-{Gaston Masse, Superintendent of the drow's Church, assisted by Rev.S, {City Gas and Electricity Depart-Robert Weaver, of the Baptist jment, who will explain the workings Church, and Rev.Alistair Murray.' of the city\u2019s power plants at Weedon Bearers, representing the Elders, land Westbury, while at Two Miles Session and Board of Managers of i Falls, Armand Crepeau, City En-St.Andrew\u2019s, were W.Ballantyne, igineer, will outline the proposed Georgs Dick, H.M.Thompson, Jos-{Two Miles Falls development to eph Sawyer, James Johnston and W.members of the Chamber, Humphrey, Burial was made in Elmwood Cemetery.Born Isabella Douglas Baird at Coburg, Ont, on October 5, 1870, the deceased was the daughter ofdnff\u201e011 Power site the late Mr.and Mrs.John Baird Her girlhood was spent in this city, |a leader in finance as well as the legal profession and was senior partner of the legal firm of Meredith, Holden, Heward and Holden.His father, the late Sir William Collis Meredith, was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, I and was knighted by Queen Victoria | two years after his retirement.Mr.Meredith was born in Quebec City, 1802, his mother the former Sophia Holmes.He received his school education in Quebec City {and in France and obtained his B.A.; degree at Bishop\u2019s in 18'88.I At the ago of nineteen he moved I to Montreal, and continued his legal {studies at Laval University, where | he received the degres of LL.B, in 1887, and LL.D.in 1904.He was Snydic of the Montreal Bar in 1904-0| and Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal in 1907.Ho was called to the Quebec Bar in 1887 and was created a Queen\u2019s Counsel in 1899.Mr.Meredith was a director of many companies, which included, at the time of his death: The Bank of (Montreal, the Royal Trust Company, the National Steel Car Corporation, | Limited, Canadian Pacific Steamships.Limited, the Standard Life .Insurance Company, Montreal, Lon-{adian Cottons, Limited, Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company, Limited, National Liverpool Insurance Company, Montreal London and General Investors, Limited.In January, 1926, Mr.Meredith was appointed Chancellor of the University of Bishop\u2019s College, Lennox-ville, and by that university was granted a D.O.L.degree.He retired from the chancellorship some years ago.\t.\t.Ho was for some years a partner ArminjCf Of of the late Sir John J.C C.Abbott, (Continued from Page I ) adn\tMacKenzie, fifty-five, Halifax, N.S.The esteem in which Mr.Mere- !\tCanadians, in addition to Capt.difh was held by citizens of the 4 ,u ,enzie\u2019 their next of kin-French language was recalled by J.I , Anc\u2018rew McKay, first assistant-em Mayor Joseph Labrecque is expected to preside at the dinner as the members of the Council were invited by the City to hold their meet- Chamber of Commerce President L.W.Dixon will review the activ- where she received her education at ltles of the Council since its reorgan-the Central School and the Youno-{lzatlon and 'vil1 submit the Pr°gram-Ladies\u2019 Academy.\t|me which the Board of Directors Following her\u2019 return to Sher- has cirafted for the coming year.Reds Register Continued from Page 1 modified, Moscow was raided by German pianes last night.> A communique said only tvvo pierced the capital\u2019s defences to drop small explosives and a few incendiary bombs.! Lights of the city squares and : main streets, glowing for the first time since the war began, were ex- { tinguished quickly at the approach of the raiders and they were not turned on again until after the three-hour alarm ended at midnight.Dispatches reported Soviet forces had taken the initiative in a series of engagements from the Smolensk zone to the Arctic.Lozovsky said the battle of Len- ^ ingrad \u201chas assumed such proper-{ tions that, in the number of participants and casualties it is unequalled, even in this war,\u201d Germans were declared to have lost 50,000 men there, in dead, wounded and captured.The Soviet Information Bureau said more than 2,500 Germans were killed in a four-day engagement in which Russian units defeated two regiments in the 102nd German infantry division and forced the remnants across the Dvina river.A Red army detachment was declared to have killed 150 men of a Finnish unit and captured important staff documents as well as arms.(London sources said today Britain had warned Finland that she would be regarded as an open enemy if the Finns persisted in invading Russian territory beyond the old 1939 frontier.Helsinki and London have thus far only broken relations.) SOVIET AIR FORCE DOMINATES CENTRE FINANCIAL AND MARKET NEWS MONTREAL LIVE STOCK MARKET MONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE BONDS AND BANKS brooke, she became actively inter ested in the work of St.Andrew\u2019s Church, and, with the late Mrs.G.D.MacKinnon, founded St.Andrew\u2019s Auxiliary.For many years she was Deaconess of St.Andrew\u2019s, and Superintendent of the Junior Department of the Sunday School, and she had charge of the Junior Missionary Society.Mrs.Price was Honorary Vice-President of the Provincial Women\u2019s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Honorary President and Honorary Life Member of St.Andrew\u2019s Missionary Society and Honorary Vice-President of Presbyterial.Surviving Mrs.Price are two sisters.Mrs.J.F.S.McCaw, of Sherbrooke, and Mrs.F.Lauder, of Toronto; a brother, George Baird, of Peterborough, Ont., and many nieces and nephews.Relatives from out-of-town attending the funeral were Mr.and Mrs.F.Lauder, of Toronto; Miss Myra Baird, of Peterborough, and Mrs.Leslie Baird, Mrs.Robert Aid.Eugene Thibault, Chairman of the Finance Committee, is also expected to deal with some aspects of the Two Miles Falls power development.When members of the Council of the Chamber recently interviewed the City Council, Mayor Labrecque urged them to study the possible power development.NEW ATTACK ON MONEY SYSTEM Baird, Mr.and Mrs.H.Barclay and F.S.McCaw, of Montreal._ Special Added Attraction \u2014 ALL ABOARD \u2014 The Crash-hound Comanche Limited with Michael Shayne, fast-talking two-listed, ever-romancing Detective with a Blonde Headache and a Brunette Heartache! N Llovd NOLAN I.v nn BARI, in 1 K a ü as ¦ with Edward Brophy, Ren \u201cShadraoh'\u2019 Carter.LATEST WORLD EVENTS.Performances At 2, 6:30 and 8:15.Edouard Labelïe, K.C.President of | f,neer> thirty-nine, wife, Montreal;] Canadian Vickers Limited, last ' \"_amexs_ Gassidy, _ second_ officer, night.He recalled a $60 prize in the i twenty-nine, mother, Newcastle, form of law books was given by the ! ^L \u2019* ^° .Archer, second assist-firm of which Mr.Meredith was ; engineer, forty-three, wife, a member to the Laval University | rr?n^rea'\u2019 B- G.Kelland, carpenter, \u2022\t- -\t-\t-\t1 thirty-seven, wife, Montreal; Harold Hawks, boatswain, thirty, mother, Verdun, Que.; Paul Robinson, able seaman, nineteen, mother, Montreal; Harold Carmichael, able seaman, thirty, mother, 291 City Road, Saint John, N.B.The Pink Star, Mr.Roosevelt disclosed, had been armed, and he said that other American-owned ships operating under Panamanian registry also had been given guns.The Neutrality Act prohibits the arming student who had thp best consistent showing in civil law studies for his three years\u2019 course, Ha is survived by his only son, William J.C.Meredith, partner of the firm of Meredith, Holden, Heward and Holden; and his grandson, Frederick William Louis Meredith, aged four.Chief Justice R.A.E.Green-shileds.Chancellor of Bishop\u2019s University, paid the following tribute to the late Mr.Meredith yesterday afternoon : \u201cIt was with deep sorrow that I Edmonton, Sept.24.\u2014(O\u2019)\u2014Premier Aberhart of Alberta said at a public meeting here last night that farm machinery prices were several times more than they should be, adding that \u201cfarmers will not get free until we smash this money system and put it in the place it ought to be.\u201d The meeting was the third of a series sponsored by Socal Crediters for the purpose of discussing monetary reform.Asked if Alberta Government action to control machinery prices had been implied in his remarks, the Premier said \u201csome measures will have to he taken as prices for whole machines are several times more than they ought to be.\u201d OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL SAVED New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Sept.24.(/P)\u2014Nine crew members and five passengers who abandoned a burning freighter eight miles off this East Florida coast city were located early today in a lifeboat, the United States Coast Guard announced.Chfef Boatswain\u2019s Mate Aubrey Harris of the Coast Guard said a EXTRA \u2018¦MOTORS ON THE MARCH.\u201d The Story of How Canada Is Responding to Churchill\u2019s Stirring Appeal : \u201cGive Us the Tools and We Will Finish the imau: ¦ s .amir light, motor-driven surf boat had of ships'\u2018'fh:inV the' United \"states !the survivors in tow and planned to flag, but the restriction does not, lamJ af.ter daybreak, learned of the death this morning j aPply to American-owned ships op- Identity of th^ ship, which caught of one whose friendship for almost1 orated under non-American regis- ; f*1'0, yesterday, remained unknown! half a century I was fortunate to | try.\t(but description of those aboard the possess, Mr.Meredith has left an I The discussion then turned to the 1 lifeboat tallied closely with the nine enviable record as a member of the {arming of American flag vessels.One ! orewmen, a married couple, twTo chil-Bar of this Province.Ho was ever newsman cited a recent statement | dren and< a male passenger who left conscientiously devoted to the in-{ by Navy Secretary Frank Knox that ! Jacksonville, Fla., yesterday aboard terests of his clients and to them j insufficient guns were available.I the British motor ship Arawak, he gave his best parts.He attained , Mr.Roosevelt agreed this was true if : headed for Nassau, Bahamas, its the highest position in the gift and {the entire merchant marine were I home port.by the choice of his confreres of { considered, but he indicated plainly j-\u2014 the Bar.He filled the responsible he believed enough weapons were HeâVV DamaCf* office of Bâtonnier with distinction on hand for the ships plying danger-;\t^\t® and with satisfaction.As Chancel-[ ous waters.\t1\t.(Continued from page 1.lor of the University of Bishop\u2019s I Sources informed on naval matters j alunicaJ10ns\u2019excePt a few telephone College he will be long remembered ; said the ship arming problem would ln®s' were down here.by all who were fortunate enough j be more complicated than in First Despite the extensive damage, to come in contact with the work I Great War days when a three-inch .'e were only three known casual-{he did for that institution.His j naval rifle could cope with a sub-l^16\"\u2019 persons electrocuted and a interesting and charming person-; marine attack.Now the aerial threat ;-,caman washed into the Gulf from a lality secured to him the affection {must be considered, and pom-pom of many friends and among that batteries or other anti-aircraft pro- While coasta.areas had ample tection is essential.\t* warning, Houston wras caught off Three or five-inch guns might :after earlier indications it serve the purpose of anti-aircraft would pass to the West., protection, they said, provided they As I1\u2019' m.°Yec\u2018 in\u2018an , storm less-have modernized mounts giving 'è110\u201d \u2019n violence.Along Matagorda them both a horizontal and a high ; Bay the wind velocity was 100 miles altitude field of fire.A three-inch | an hour.By the time the storm gun has a range between 28,000 and j reached Houston it had dropped to 77 30.000\tfeet, and a five-incher about mlIes an hour.34.000\tfeet\u2014both ample for keeping: The weather Bureau predicted it a plane too high for accurate bomb- would continue to lose intensity as it jnju\t; curved Northeastward but destruc- Another factor involved, they : Gve winds of gale force likely would pointed out, was the question of gun j extend 100 miles North of Galveston, crews.When the United States arm-\u2019\t\"LZ~\u201c Z-~\u2014 ed her merchantmen before entering ' UuKC Displays 1 tv6,War in 1917\u2019 k1! 77 7L :\tContinued from Page 1 plied the gun crevvs, but today the g d to suburban Coral Gables to navy is hard put to man the war- i ct three hundred Royal Air sh.ps of the rapidly expanding two-1 Fmrcc cadets and onp hund]?ed Am- ocean fleet.Despite this.Knox\t.studying navigation at the sufficient gun crews would be avail- University of able, if necessarj.\tSpent another hour and a half at the Pan-American Airways Dinner Key seaplane base; Entertained airline officials at a cocktail party; (British confirmation is not avail- Dined with members of his party ab](,)>\tat a restaurant.The communique reiterate/ previ- Tb